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1,624,825 Apnl 2 w. T. s. BROWN FASTENER FOR CONTAINERS Filed Dec. 2, 1925 Patented Apr. 12, 1927.

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A LLIAM T. 5. BROWN, OEEAST POINT, GEQRGIA. I

' FASTENER FOR CONTAINERS. Application filed December 2; 1925. Serial No 72,800.

Thisinvention relates generally to boxes, constitute acontainer, the ends of the top, crates, and other containers, and more parbottom, and side members extend inside of ticularly to a fastener for holding parts of the battens A of the endmembers, "and the container together both in the assembled those battens abut the battens Bof the side 5 and package formt v I members.v The members A, B, and C, pref- 60 It is an object of the invention to provide erably are rectangular in plan, and m'ema fastener of improved form that not only bers that are positioned oppositely in the may be used instead of that shown by Fig. container are substantially identical, in 8 of my United States-Patent N 0. 1,468,340 order that they may be used interchange 10 for holding together elements of a box or ab yq, A 3 I crate assembled, for example, as disclosed The side. battens-.B and the walls of the by F igsl, 5, and 6 and'in a package of dis end members and the battens ,A thereof assembled parts as shown, for example, by that'abut the battens B" are formed with Fig. 7 of that patent, but also otherwise in holes or passages D, which are positioned v a container, whereby there is afforded a desothat those of abutting or opposite battens 7 vice of a single type that is capable of meetare alined when the parts areassembled as ing various requirements in structures of this a container, general class. These elements, formed as described, may

WVhen considered with the description be heldtogether, both as aco'ntainer or as herein, the characteristics of the invention a package of knocked-down parts, by the are apparent from the accompanying drawfasteners disclosed by my patent hereinbeing, forming part hereof, wherein an em fore referred to. However, in order to afbodi-Inent of the inventionand its manner ford a fastener that will answer that purof use are disclosed, for purposes of illuspose as well and also be more'suitable for tration. v I employment in other ways in a container, Although the disclosures herein exemplify I have provided the fastener disclosed herewhat now is considered to be a preferable in. I I p embodiment of the invention, it is to be That fastener comprises a member having understood that it is not the intention to be a head 7 and a threaded shank 8 ofthe gen- 30 limited necessarily thereto in interpretation eral form of a machine-screw, and aunt 9 of the claims, as modifications and adaptacooperable therewith. The nut is of plate t'onswithin the limits of the claims can be like form, somewhat elongated, and prefmade without departing from the nature of erably rectangular in plan. It has a the invention. threaded opening 10 of'a size to take and to 3.: Like reference characters refer to cor-- cooperate with the threaded shank 8 and 90 responding parts in the views'of the draw-- another and larger opening 11 through in r, of which which a shank of the size to engage in the l ig. 1 is a view of a box or crate having opening .10 may move freely. its parts held together by fasteners formed When fasteners of this form are usedto 40 in accordance with this invention; hold together parts assembled as a container, 95

Fig. 2 is a. view of the parts in package .the shanks are disposed inthe alined pasform; sages D with the heads on the outsideof the Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view of a box ilend walls and the nuts bearing. against the lustrating another way in which the fastenopposite sides of the batt f th id I er may be used; members. The elongated nuts are prevented f- Fig. iis a similar view illustrating still from turning while the shanks are being another use of the fastener; turned thereinto. or therefromby bearing Fig. 5 is a view of the fastener; against the walls of the side members.

Fig. 6 is a view of the nut thereof. When knocked down parts of the container Having more particular reference to the are assembled in package form, the top, botdrawing, A designates end members havtom, and side members are located between ing marginal battens 'A', B side members the end members, and the openings through having battens B near their ends, and C the latter members are approximately in to and bottom members, of a box or crate. alinemen't. A threaded shank of the fastlVhen these members are assembled to ener is passed inwardly through the opening 119 maintain p arts of of each of the end members and through a larger opening of one of a pair of the nuts and turned into the threaded opening of the other nut, and the two threaded shanks are turned and tightened to hold the parts. of the package firmly together. As seen in Fig. 2, the nut having threaded. engagement with one shank is beyond the nut having similar engagement with the other shank. Thus the two nuts of the opposed shanks are lapped and holdthe two shanks together and the'container parts in package form.

The fastener of this invention not only may be employed as exemplified by Figs. 1 and 2, but it also may be used otherwise to a box, crate, or other container together. For example, the platelike-nut may be set into a batten of one wall of a container and the screw turned through an abutting batten of another'wall and into the nut, asshown by Fig. 3; or the nut maybe placed against a side of a batten and heldthereon by a nail or other holding member driven through the nonthr'ea'ded opening and the screw turned through an abutting batten into the threaded opening of the nut, as shown by Having thus described my invention,

ean-n25 what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A package of container parts having fastener-openings in its outer members, and fasteners comprising threaded shanks disposed i'nwardly through said openings and nutsarr-anged in lapping pairs and each nut having a threaded opening and another opening through which one of said shanks is movable freely, each of said shanks extending first through the latter opening of one nut and into engagement with the threaded opening of the other.

2. A fastener comprising two threaded shanks arranged to be disposed in two oppositely- )ositioned parts for the purpose of holding them together and having heads capable ofbearing against the outside of said parts, and nuts arranged 'in lapping pair's, each nut having a threaded opening and another opening through which either of said shanks is movable freely, and each of said shanksextending first through the latter opening of one nut and into engagement with the threaded opening of the other. In testimony whereof I. afliX my signature.

l VILLIAM T. S. BRUWN. 

